AI consultant Cheltenham · Gloucestershire

AI consultant in Cheltenham.

I did college and university in Cheltenham, so the town knows a thing or two about my earlier years. The offer today is the one the rest of this site describes: working systems, honest advice, and SME pricing, delivered remotely for most of the build and in person for the kickoff and workshops.

  • Working systems in production: customer support, voice agents, quoting, follow-ups, reporting.
  • Honest outside view: vendor pitches, second opinions, a written 90-day plan, an honest "not yet" when that is the right answer.
  • You own everything: code, data, documentation, roadmap. No platform lock-in, no recurring fee to me.
· Based in Bristol · BS16 1BW · College years in Cheltenham · Replies within one working day
Selected systems shipped

Working systems, not prototypes.

Three systems in production right now, each one designed, built and handed over from the Bristol studio. The proof on this page is live software, not a portfolio of concepts.

Vereby · In production

24/7 customer support, three channels.

Live, paying customer support customers. 24/7 enquiries across web chat, WhatsApp, and voice. 30-day trial, no card required. Triage, route, book, same brain, every channel. Never missed a call.

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Vibe2 · In production

AI-curated short breaks, UK travellers.

8 destination landing pages, 8 hand-curated moods, live LiteAPI rates from £68 to £307. No fabricated starting prices. Real rates under the headline, in the booking flow, in the editorial, they all agree because they pull from the same source.

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S0cial Master · In production

AI-curated social content for a small team.

MCP-server social ops for a small team running a real audience. 13 tools covering research, drafts, calendar, post status. Open-weight models for the routine work, frontier models for the moments that matter.

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Who I work with

What Cheltenham businesses automate first.

Cheltenham runs on professional services, a serious tech and security cluster, and a retail and hospitality scene built around festivals and events. Here is what those businesses tend to automate first.

Professional services

Solicitors, accountants, advisors.

Enquiry triage, document drafting, conflict-check helpers, and client-update emails that read like the partner wrote them. Professional services automate the high-volume low-stakes work first, leaving the judgement-heavy moments where they belong.

Tech & cyber

Cheltenham's tech cluster.

Internal tooling and reporting automation: pipelines that summarise, dashboards that update themselves, and admin workflows that stop eating engineering time. The town's technical depth just means the teams here outgrow manual process faster than most.

Retail & hospitality

Festival-town businesses.

Bookings, enquiries, and review responses that keep up with event peaks without hiring for the peak. High-volume, repetitive, and exactly the work AI handles well when it is set up against your real calendar and channels.

Local & remote

Cheltenham, then and now.

Expedient AI Ltd · Registered in England and Wales · Bristol BS16 1BW

I studied in Cheltenham before building the studio in Bristol, and the two are around an hour apart on a good run, so in-person kickoffs and workshops are straightforward. Delivery is remote for most of the build, which is how clients across the South West and the rest of the UK are served the same way as local ones.

Other entry points on this site: £149 Local SEO audit for businesses that want a one-page read of their map-pack position · £350 Brand Voice Setup · Website Build from £300 · All areas we serve.

Straight answers.

Do you work with businesses outside Cheltenham as well?

Yes. The studio is in Bristol and most delivery happens by video, so Gloucester, Tewkesbury, Cirencester, and the rest of Gloucestershire are served the same way as Cheltenham, with in-person sessions whenever the geography makes it easy.

Can we do the kickoff in person?

Yes. The in-person parts, the kickoff and the team workshops, are worth the drive, and Cheltenham is an easy one. Everything else is remote by default, which keeps the cost sensible.

How much does it cost to work with you?

Builds are scoped and fixed-price before any work starts, Advise runs on a day rate, and Enable is a monthly retainer. UK SME rates, not London pricing, and smaller fixed-scope starting points exist if you want to begin with something small.

What sort of businesses do you work with?

Small and medium businesses, typically 5 to 200 people, in professional services, tech, retail, hospitality, and trades. The common thread is a workflow that is high-volume, repetitive, and currently held together by whoever has the least time.

Twenty minutes. A short diagnostic.

Bring one workflow you'd like to improve. By the end of the call you'll have a clear yes or no on whether AI is genuinely worth it for that workflow, and a rough cost and time range if you want help shipping it.

Replies within one working day. What helps me help you: send one workflow, one sentence on what hurts about it, and a number (volume, hours lost, errors/week). Anything you don't send is fine, I'll still read your message.

Reasonable starting ranges: a small build, £5,000 to £20,000 fixed price, six to eight weeks. A day-rate Advise, £600 to £1,200 per day. Enable, £300 to £800 per month, off when you don't need it.

  • A clear yes or no on whether AI is worth it for your top problem
  • One cash or time saving idea you can run yourself
  • A rough build-and-implementation cost and time range, if you want help
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